Subject: Scope Use.

From: "Todd Rupper" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:00:01 -0600

Jim,

Roger Holm and myself have had many hours of discussion on the scope issue.  The largest area of discussion has been which scopes do the UA use and which scopes do the SA use.

At a bake off, I asked Erik about scope clarification.  Erik replied that different implementations may have different needs.  Therefore, scopes were intentionally vague and should be open to the implementation.  

In RFC 2610 (DHCP options), the word "agent" has replaced the word "service agent" that had been used in previous drafts.  The generic wording has increased the range of interpretation.

We, as a group, need to answer a basic question: Do we want to clarify the use of scopes?

If the answer is yes, then we need to formally publish some information.
 
Todd.